Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard Cummer wrote: > >http://tinyurl.com/lrvoepz >http://tinyurl.com/l6tmmyr >http://tinyurl.com/m7qklam > Howard I think it's time to pay more attention to the lighting. These are wonderful photos but I think you can do better in this (rare!) bright daylight either by using fill flash or positioning yourself to get a view of the birds' sunny side. The combination of bright backlight and the auto-ISO (I'm assuming this means a form of auto-exposure) means the details in the birds are lost in deep shadow. An alternative would be to switch to manual exposure and set the exposure more for the shadow side than for the bright background the camera's limited brain is exposing for. Just as an example, a Rufous Hummingbird from the sunny side 1/3000 sec @ f/8 ISO 400 with a manual focus 400mm f/5.6 (280mm f/4 + 1.4x extender): http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/trochilidae/ruhu01.html Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com